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The harvest is (mostly) in, but at what price?
This is the question posed earlier this month by the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia. That group’s press release of November 4 broke the stories of deaths and injuries suffered earlier in the harvest. More than just breaking news, the group points out the total complicity of institutions that, in a non-totalitarian society [...]
What’s so bad about cotton conscription: Part II, violence and accidents
Each year that children are forced out to pick Uzbekistan’s cotton, many will be injured, sickened, crippled and some will be killed. Their families will receive little or no compensation. A few reports have already emerged on the victims of the 2009 harvest.
Deaths by violence
At least one young person has been killed in a [...]
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Download 2010 SOAS Report What Has Changed
The production and export of cotton continues to be a major feature of the economy, politics and everyday lives of the people of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. This report analyses the nature and causes of their use of child labour in the cotton sector.